MMA super fan Lloyd Woodard thinks Michael Chandler is a swell guy – a talented fighter, a hard worker and a great representative of the sport.

But following a weekend win over Patricky “Pitbull” Freire and now two more tournament victories away from a rematch with the Bellator lightweight champion, Woodard has a single goal.

“I want to beat him up really bad,” he told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “The No. 1 thing I want to do in life right now is beat up Mike Chandler.”

Woodard (12-1 MMA, 2-1 BFC) took the first of three steps toward that opportunity when he submitted season-six lightweight-tournament tourney favorite Freire (10-3 MMA, 3-2 BFC) in a dazzling performance at this past weekend’s Bellator 62 event on MTV2. Woodard traded fire in a grueling back-and-forth first round before submitting the Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt with a crippling kimura in the second. (Watch the Woodard vs. Freire fight.)

Before the bout, Woodard told Chandler the fight would play out that way.

“I talked to him, and I told him, ‘I’m going to put it on him, and I think he’s going to break, and when he breaks, I’m going to be on top of him,'” Woodard said. “And that’s how it happened. That’s how I want to fight everyone from now on.”

Woodard’s next fight comes against Olympian and fast-rising Rick Hawn at Bellator 66. It’s obviously a tall task, and Woodard – an admitted fight junkie who watches nearly every televised MMA event – isn’t looking past him (or Thiago Michel and Brent Weedman, who meet in the tourney’s other semifinal). But he knows he’s two wins away from avenging his only career loss, which came to Chandler in a season-four Bellator tourney.

“He’s a really nice guy,” Woodard said. “He comes to the MMAjunkie.com studio, and I hear him on your station all the time. He’s a really tough dude. I’m glad to say I lost to a really tough guy with a hard work ethic like him, but I can’t wait to fight him again and beat him up.”

Aside from avenging his loss, Woodard simply wants to fight guys who put on exciting bouts. It’s a big reason he campaigned for the fight with Freire, and it’s the primary reason he’s anxious for a Chandler rematch.

Sure, any knucklehead can go into a cage and swing for the fences. But when you combine that type of aggression with good game-planning and quick thinking, fans are the winners.

“We need guys who fight and are able to think at the same time and put on a good show and put in the work,” he said. “I’m going to do that and make MMA fans very happy.”

In fact, he voiced that belief to UFC president Dana White this past weekend. Woodard, in fact, is a UFC fan – “I spend a lot of money on fights, and I order every UFC event,” he said – but he hated knowing his fight was facing competition from “The Ultimate Fighter: Live” on FX.

And what irked him most was in the previous “TUF” episode, Urijah Faber’s entire time had a chance to step up and volunteer for a fight with Team Cruz’s No. 1 pick, Justin Lawrence. No one answered the call.

“The guys in the UFC didn’t want to fight last week,” Woodard said. “Why would you want to watch that fight? Watch my fight on Bellator. I wanted to fight, and [Freire] wanted to fight. And that’s exactly what we did.

“If I had a choice between watching Bellator that night and the caliber of fights we had that night, and the caliber of the fights they had on the UFC, I’d watch Bellator every time. I want people to realize that. I even tweeted Dana that night and was like, ‘I think we upstaged you guys. What did you think about that fight?'”

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